Matthias Ettrich's Usenet Post
Matthias Ettrich, a German student, posted a message lamenting the lack of a consistent graphical desktop for Linux and proposing the creation of a 'Kool Desktop Environment' using the Qt toolkit.
Significance
This post is widely considered the founding moment of the KDE project, sparking global interest and attracting initial contributors.
Key facts
- Date
- 1996-10-14
- Type
- invention
- Location
- Internet (Usenet newsgroup de.comp.os.linux.misc)